Woman Pranks Daughter with School Shooting Text in Dumbest April Fools’ Joke of the Year

A 54-year-old woman has been charged with disturbing schools, breaching the peace, and unlawful use of a telephone after sending a text to her daughter claiming that shots had been fired at a Virginia College campus where she worked. It could go down as the dumbest April Fools’ joke of the year.

Police say that Angela Timmons, an employee of the private institution’s Spartanburg, South Carolina wing, messaged her daughter that she had heard shots inside the building. When the daughter tried to get in touch with her mother again and failed, she unsurprisingly called 911 to report the incident.

Authorities swarmed the location and found nothing.

Timmons admitted to police that it was just an April Fools’ joke, and that she’s always playing April Fools’ jokes like this–you know, like that makes it better.

McCormick here: Sptbg Co Deputies respond to shooting call at Virginia College, find out it was April Fool's joke. pic.twitter.com/Lu3V1PMH8L

No. I believe that every single prank call, text, internet post, or graffiti on public restroom walls should be answered immediately with a “swarming” swat team with tanks and grenade launchers. Why wait? They need the practice anyway.